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everyone needs to read about voyager 2. among other amazing things, its engineers designed it so that it would stay functional in various ways as its battery de
by jberryman 16y ago
everyone needs to read about voyager 2. among other amazing things, its engineers designed it so that it would stay functional in various ways as its battery depleted over the decades. if it does not receive a transmission from earth after a given time interval it will go into some kind of autopilot, faithfully beaming data back to earth. third thing i recall: the signal from the probe is about as faint as a cell phone on the other side of the world
- waterlesscloud 16y agoIn various papers I had to write in college, I'd tend to base them on space probes whenever possible. A great excuse to read journal articles about the Lunar Prospector mission and so on.